In 2019 – when Wales reached the semi-finals of the last World Cup in Japan – Jac Morgan was only playing rugby part time while working as an apprentice engineer.
If any employees of Morgan Advanced Materials on the outskirts of Swansea were watching on Sunday night, they would have surely been more than proud of their former colleague.
Morgan capped his remarkable rise from semi-professional flanker to Wales captain with a stand-out World Cup display as he guided his team into the quarter-finals in France.
This was a record Welsh win over Australia, who were abject.